Looks at works of modern literature, visual art, music, film, theater, and architecture to arrive at an assessment of what parody is and... Læs mere
A fascinating and compulsively readable study of the myriad forms and effects of the ironic. Linda Hutcheon sets out for the first time a clear and sustained analysis of the theory and political context of irony, from Madonnna to Wagner.
Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension.
This study has a double focus: in the first place, it seeks to chart the parallel re-evaluation of both formalism and psychology in... Læs mere